Character Quotes · Page 315

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

— David Hare

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

— Confucius

“She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!”

— Henry Miller

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

— Chris O'Dowd

A lot of people think, like, 'JoJo' is fake or 'JoJo' is a character. But, like, it's not.

— JoJo Siwa

I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.

— Bing Gordon

The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.

— Aristotle

I have never done a show based on whether it will work or not. I took up all my shows because I…

— Mouni Roy

I look at characters to see if they have some contrasts to play with; I think that's always what I'm looking for…

— Joel Kinnaman

If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it;…

— David Hume

We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into…

— Jennifer Beals

I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and…

— Danzy Senna

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their…

— Stephen Covey

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic…

— Doug Hutchison

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You…

— Michael Pena

Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world,…

— Richard North Patterson

THE POWER OF THE GROUP We all want to feel a sense of belonging. This isn’t a character flaw. It’s fundamental to…

— Rosalind Wiseman

The ethics of sex is a thorny problem. Each of us is forced to grope for a solution he can live with…

— Robert A. Heinlein

In a way, I see my fiction as having moved in that direction - and the characters as dealing simultaneously with their…

— Frederick Busch

Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…

— Sissela Bok

Character is the direct result of mental attitude. I believe that character is higher than the intellect. I believe that leadership is…

— Vince Lombardi

I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text…

— Neal Shusterman

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and…

— Ali Sina

My entire career writing novels was wrapped up around Harry Bosch. This character was too important to me to just hand off.

— Michael Connelly

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

— Henry Miller

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

— Will Friedle

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

— Peter Orner

Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.

— Jim Starlin

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

— Zebulon Pike

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

— John Stuart Mill

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of…

— John Lydon

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

— Howard Cosell

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

— Ang Lee

I don't ever want to do the same character twice. Variety excites me.

— Priyanka Chopra

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

— S.C. Stephens

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

— Cassidy Freeman

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

— Billy Sunday